Top 180 Meanness Quotes & Sayings

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

I've met little meanness, wherever I went.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Twitter is an open forum and it brings the meanness in people. It shouldn't be taken seriously as at times it's a sadistic thing.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

Anonymity breeds meanness.

Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.

I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

There`s some nastiness, there`s some meanness there. There`s something going on in the mosques and other places.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.